Hitachi, Wipro partner

Wipro has partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to offer co-branded products and services on Hitachi Technology in India, reports Business Standard.

Starting with Hitachi's Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 range, the alliance is expected to open up opportunities for SMEs to adopt scaleable and tiered enterprise class storage.

Ashok Tripathy, Wipro GM and business head of the systems and technology division, says: “Growth-oriented emerging enterprises are increasingly looking for an IT partner who can work with them through their IT life cycle and manage IT complexity.”

Trend Micro has signed a deal to acquire Humyo, an online storage and file synchronisation provider, states CNET News.

Trend Micro sees the acquisition as a way to offer its customers secure, cloud-based storage.

Humyo co-founder Dan Conlon says: "The growth in mobile devices, iPad, and Internet-enabled televisions means people want access to what they want, when they want it, and on whatever device they have with them.”

Storage and software provider Dot Hill Systems has begun a restructuring plan to reduce its workforce by 10% and to make salary cuts, says The Wall Street Journal.

The storage provider expects to record severance costs in the range of $300 000 to $500 000. The planned job cuts will affect about 28 employees.

President and chief executive Dana Kammersgard says the plan should result in break-even results before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation by the last quarter of the year.